Then up the slope they went, to find a miniature crater, some ten feet
deep and at least fourteen feet across, where the mine had been
exploded.
"Say, it's hard, even yet, to understand why I wasn't killed," muttered
Jack Benson. "But here we are, standing here, thinking about ourselves,
when that fellow, Gray, is getting away with a package that we ought to
have. Come along, fellows! And you, Millard, if you try to bold back
on us, you'll learn some new things in the way of discomfort!"
Thus warned, and realizing that his determined young captors were in
a savage frame of mind, the long-legged one didn't try to lag. All
four appeared in the village in which Eph had prowled for information.
The appearance of the handcuffed prisoner stirred up a lot of curiosity.
Eph, however, showed his written authorization for taking Millard in
the name of the United States government, so no one offered the captive
any aid or sympathy.
But the submarine boys met with disturbing news. They heard that a
little more than a half an hour before, Gray, still carrying a big
package, had embarked on his chartered schooner, and had put to sea.
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